Codex here. So, a few Saturdays ago, I wrote about a game of illustrator prompts called Monster Art Battle.
I left our humble readers with the challenge: Design a monster with that contains (in some way) “mobster”, “squid,” and “pet kitten.”
Here’s what I came up with:
Soooo… D’you want any other prompts from the convention panel?
(True confession: I had to look up “tommy gun” on google images. But it was still fun to draw)
Tempest in a Teardrop: The Churchians 
There’s something awesome about gangster squids and their space kittens.
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I know. The serendipitous combos are the best part of the game.
Though mollusca IS the coolest phylum, of course.
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Looks great and all, but once you see it, you can’t UN-see it. No, I’m sure he’s a really nice squid, not a dickhead at all.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! You’re right. Darn it.
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This is a perfect example of pareidolia. The same phenomenon is at play in a picture when light/shadow interaction looks like a ghost, a smear of Nutello on toast looks like Mohammad, a college student examines themselves in a mirror and sees a Two-Spirit, or a judge looks at a map and fails to see borders.
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Could be. Or it could be the scrolling on the screen that happened to cut it off at just the right point for a moment. Seeing the whole thing at once it’s unlikely I’d have thought that, but seeing pretty much just the top of the fedora and upward…
Don’t get me wrong, I think squid are are rally cool – anything with cyanoglobin for greed blood gets extra cool points, and I like fedora and allusion to a Chicago typewriter (gangster squid, Squidsters!) are double-plus neato. But the mantle needs, er, something.
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A television censorship rating? A piercing? A large, censorial, MAGA sign?
I’ll see if Codex can add a novelty George Michael earring.
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you guys are all being a bunch of squid-heads! 🙂
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